In 19 94, you created portrait pervert. This time you are sitting in front of a black and gold brocade. Your head is completely covered in a black leather gimp mask. You're wearing leather chaps, and the word pervert is carved in bloody, kind of oozing, very ornate letters across your chest. And then two of your friends from a piercing shop lined your arms forty six times with two inch needles - they were 12 gauged needles. But i remember we wanted the gauge to be big enough that it would create, like e appearance of body armor, an a cera.
At 8 years old, Catherine Opie realized “that history is made within an image culture”—and here, she discusses her incredible life as a photographer driven by culture.